Grass Valley iTX Desktop v.2.6 - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
About this manual ............................................................................................................ 1
Terminology ............................................................................................................................. 2
Software versions ..................................................................................................................... 2
Valid characters in names and titles of media items ............................................................... 3
Further reading ........................................................................................................................ 3
About iTX .......................................................................................................................... 4
Grass Valley client-server technology ...................................................................................... 4
The main parts of an iTX system .............................................................................................. 5
The iTX Desktop ....................................................................................................................... 6
Workstation View and User View .................................................................................................... 6
Pop-up layouts ................................................................................................................................. 7
Starting the iTX Desktop........................................................................................................... 7
Quick tour of the iTX Desktop .......................................................................................... 8
About service status indicators in layout components .......................................................... 12
About system time and local time ......................................................................................... 12
Working with schedules ................................................................................................. 13
About iTX channels ................................................................................................................. 13
Monitoring and controlling live schedules ............................................................................. 14
iTX Desktop components for working with schedules ........................................................... 14
The Content Selector ...................................................................................................... 15
About the Content Selector ................................................................................................... 15
Content Selector palettes .............................................................................................................. 16
Setting up palettes on the Content Selector .................................................................................. 17
Changing the properties of an asset in the Content Selector ........................................................ 17
Managing the contents of a palette selection pane .............................................................. 18
Add assets to a palette selection pane .......................................................................................... 18
Remove assets from a palette selection pane ............................................................................... 18
Editing a schedule by dragging and dropping assets from the Content Selector .................. 19
Creating schedule events ............................................................................................................... 19
Primary and secondary events ....................................................................................................... 19
Locating a new schedule event ...................................................................................................... 20
Create a schedule event by dropping an asset into the Schedule Grid ......................................... 21
Create a schedule event by dropping an asset onto the Timeline Display .................................... 22
Remove one or more events from a schedule ............................................................................... 23
Working with video clips ........................................................................................................ 24
About the Video Clip palette .......................................................................................................... 24
Adding a video-clip event to a schedule ........................................................................................ 25
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